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\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have Dori join CMU as Director of Development,\u201d says Terry Schellenberg, Vice President External. \u201cDori\u2019s strength in relating to donors and her experience opening gift planning opportunities will be a real asset.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zerbe Cornelsen, who has two adult children who have graduated from CMU in recent years, is excited to work for an organization committed to learning and growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need places like CMU to root us in values and faith, so that we\u2019re better able to embody lives of service, leadership, and reconciliation,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Prior to her work with Abundance Canada, Zerbe Cornelsen served as a pastor. Before that, she was the coordinator of Open Circle, a program that provides relationships of integrity and faith for prisoners and people who have committed offenses.<\/p>\n
She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, IN; a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Winnipeg; and a diploma in Biblical Studies from Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re grateful for what Dori\u2019s earlier pastoral experience, along with her ongoing commitment to the church and to CMU\u2019s mission, will bring to her work with us,\u201d Schellenberg says.<\/p>\n
Zerbe Cornelsen is looking forward to starting her work at CMU on April 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to getting to know others who feel strongly about the mission of CMU, who want to live out their values by making gifts to a place that allows for the potential of a future that we all want to see,\u201d she says. \u201cWe all want to see a world of more compassion, grace, and ability to live better together, and CMU nurtures that kind of passion.\u201d<\/p>\n
About CMU
\n<\/strong>A Christian university in the Anabaptist tradition, CMU\u2019s Shaftesbury campus offers undergraduate degrees in arts, business, humanities, music, sciences, and social sciences, as well as\u00a0graduate degrees in theology,\u00a0ministry, peacebuilding and collaborative development, and an MBA. CMU has over 800 full-time equivalent\u00a0students, including those enrolled in degree programs at the Shaftesbury and Menno Simons College campuses and in its Outtatown certificate program. <\/em><\/p>\n